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Rich Felker cdba6b2562 improve joinable/detached thread state handling
previously, some accesses to the detached state (from pthread_join and
pthread_getattr_np) were unsynchronized; they were harmless in
programs with well-defined behavior, but ugly. other accesses (in
pthread_exit and pthread_detach) were synchronized by a poorly named
"exitlock", with an ad-hoc trylock operation on it open-coded in
pthread_detach, whose only purpose was establishing protocol for which
thread is responsible for deallocation of detached-thread resources.

instead, use an atomic detach_state and unify it with the futex used
to wait for thread exit. this eliminates 2 members from the pthread
structure, gets rid of the hackish lock usage, and makes rigorous the
trap added in commit 80bf595255 for
catching attempts to join detached threads. it should also make
attempt to detach an already-detached thread reliably trap.
2018-05-05 21:33:58 -04:00
arch work around arm gcc's rejection of r7 asm constraints in thumb mode 2018-05-01 14:34:22 -04:00
crt add s390x port 2016-11-11 23:06:21 -05:00
dist add another example option to dist/config.mak 2012-04-24 16:49:11 -04:00
include fix default feature profile in tar.h 2018-03-28 15:53:45 -04:00
ldso reintroduce hardening against partially-replaced allocator 2018-04-19 22:22:11 -04:00
src improve joinable/detached thread state handling 2018-05-05 21:33:58 -04:00
tools add CFI generation script for x86_64 2015-10-13 18:09:46 -04:00
.gitignore remove obsolete gitignore rules 2016-07-06 00:21:25 -04:00
configure use explicit dynamic-list rather than symbolic-functions for linking 2018-04-17 19:23:00 -04:00
COPYRIGHT update authors/contributors list 2018-02-21 14:19:01 -05:00
dynamic.list allow interposition/replacement of allocator (malloc) 2018-04-18 14:22:49 -04:00
INSTALL add powerpc64 and s390x to list of supported archs in INSTALL file 2017-08-29 20:48:02 -04:00
Makefile adjust makefile target-specific CFLAGS rules to be more robust & complete 2018-03-24 22:47:36 -04:00
README update version reference in the README file 2014-06-25 14:16:53 -04:00
VERSION release 1.1.19 2018-02-22 13:39:19 -05:00
WHATSNEW release 1.1.19 2018-02-22 13:39:19 -05:00

    musl libc

musl, pronounced like the word "mussel", is an MIT-licensed
implementation of the standard C library targetting the Linux syscall
API, suitable for use in a wide range of deployment environments. musl
offers efficient static and dynamic linking support, lightweight code
and low runtime overhead, strong fail-safe guarantees under correct
usage, and correctness in the sense of standards conformance and
safety. musl is built on the principle that these goals are best
achieved through simple code that is easy to understand and maintain.

The 1.1 release series for musl features coverage for all interfaces
defined in ISO C99 and POSIX 2008 base, along with a number of
non-standardized interfaces for compatibility with Linux, BSD, and
glibc functionality.

For basic installation instructions, see the included INSTALL file.
Information on full musl-targeted compiler toolchains, system
bootstrapping, and Linux distributions built on musl can be found on
the project website:

    http://www.musl-libc.org/